Have you worked yourself into a frenzy over the forthcoming eighth season premiere of “Game of Thrones"?

After all, this is the very last season premiere, so you might want to do it up. Throw a little party, invite some like-minded individuals, or go the opposite route and banish all human contact until the episode is over and the teaser for the next one is done.

Maybe you were one of those dedicated fans who went and watched every episode over again, from the first season through the seventh, in anticipation of the end of an era.

If you weren’t, you can be forgiven for not remembering all of the details of the most recent season, mostly because it aired in summer of 2017.

Yes, we have been without “Game of Thrones” for that long. A child born after the last season finale would be just shy of 2 years old. (Ahem, George R.R. Martin.)

Ahead of the “Game of Thrones” season premiere, which will air at 9 p.m. April 14 on HBO, here’s a rundown of where the show left off and what to expect as the final ride gets underway.

What happened in the last episode?

A lot happened in the 2017 season finale of "Game of Thrones." Witness: the demolishment of The Wall.HBO

First, in case you actually do want to embark on some last-minute catching up, you can always do so on HBO Go or HBO Now.

But HBO is also helping with that effort by airing a “Game of Thrones” marathon on HBO 2 across the entire week leading up to the premiere. Episodes will air from 1 p.m. to just after 10 p.m. on Tuesday, April 9; 1 p.m. to just before 10:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 10; 1 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. on both Thursday, April 11 and Friday, April 12; and 1:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. on both Saturday, April 13 and Sunday, April 14, just before the premiere.

HBO’s main channel will air the last two episodes of the seventh season — “Beyond the Wall” and “The Dragon and the Wolf" — just before the eighth season premiere on Sunday, April 14. The first starts after 6 p.m. and the second starts at 7:30 p.m., continuing right up until 9 p.m., when we’ll all be waiting with bated breath for fresh drama.

In the seventh season finale “The Dragon and the Wolf,” which premiered on Aug. 27, 2017, we witnessed the following developments:

Littlefinger, aka Petyr Baelish, tried to turn Sansa Stark against her sister, Arya, but in the end, they both got the last laugh. With Sansa functioning as the Lady of Winterfell (and Bran Stark back at home at her side, albeit in his new identity as the Three-Eyed Raven), she turns the tables on the man who sold her to the Boltons and the abject terror that was Ramsay. Sansa calls Arya to appear before a public audience, which turns out to be a trial. Littlefinger is absolutely giddy, thinking his plan has worked. But the trial is for him. His utter shock at the revelation is a priceless moment that you should probably watch again even if you don’t have time to rewatch the whole episode. In short order, Sansa sentences Littlefinger to die for all his many crimes and conspiracies against the Starks (and just about everyone else, if we’re keeping score). Arya carries out the sentence, slitting Baelish’s throat with the same Valyrian steel dagger he claimed Tyrion stole from him (which was also a lie, told to Catelyn Stark).

When Samwell meets up with Bran, they come to the realization — using Bran’s powers and Sam’s book-learning from the Citadel — that Jon Snow is actually the trueborn son of Lyanna Stark and Rhaegar Targaryen, who was the heir to King Aerys II Targaryen (the Mad King). This changes his status from a bastard who climbed the ranks through leadership skills and after the deaths of other people in his family to a legitimate heir to the Iron Throne. At first, Bran, thinking (courtesy of his visions) that Jon was born a bastard in Dorne, believes that Jon’s name should be Jon Sand, not Jon Snow. But when Sam informs him that a maester chronicled the annulment of Rhaegar’s marriage to Elia Martell, Bran goes back in time again to witness the legitimate marriage of Rhaegar and Lyanna, and, later, the moment that Ned Stark discovers Lyanna in the Tower of Joy. She is on her deathbed after giving birth to Jon. She tells Ned her baby son’s real name: Aegon Targaryen. And there we have it: Daenerys Targaryen is Jon Snow’s aunt. As we are receiving this information, we see that the pair have just ... consummated ... their relationship.

Crucially, we see the fruit of the plan hatched by the alliance between Winterfell and Jon Snow and Daenerys and her allies. The plan, of course, is to show Cersei a wight to prove that the Night King’s threat is real. With all concerned parties in King’s Landing for this summit of sorts, the Hound empties the skeletal monster onto the ground in front of Cersei, and she is visibly shaken as it comes lunging toward her.

Cersei Lannister (Lena Headey) in the eighth season of "Game of Thrones."Helen Sloan | HBO

At first, Cersei seems to agree that she will commit forces from King’s Landing to the Great War. But when Jon refuses to stay neutral, saying he has already pledged his allegiance to Daenerys, she appears miffed and takes her offer back, leaving the travelers in limbo. Her scorned brother Tyrion thinks he can change her mind, and he meets with her alone. When he leaves King’s Landing, he thinks he has successfully made the argument that she must again pledge her army to the cause. But in her mind, Cersei is one step ahead, later revealing to her unsuspecting brother Jaime that she has no intention of helping Jon and Daenerys fight the White Walkers and wights. Instead, she has hired the Golden Company of Braavos to help them win the war for themselves (the one that concerns men, not dead people) and consolidate power. Euron Greyjoy, who made a big show of abandoning Cersei during the summit, also had an ace up his sleeve: He wasn’t really leaving to return to the Iron Islands, he was off to rendezvous with the Golden Company on behalf of Cersei.

When Tyrion meets with Cersei, he picks up what she’s putting down — that she’s pregnant, something that she also tells Jaime.

Jaime, having already pledged his support to the war, is none too pleased to break another oath, so he leaves Cersei, presumably to join up with Jon and Daenerys for the big fight. As he leaves King’s Landing, a soft snow (ominously!) begins to fall.

The biggest development of all — which required hardly any dialogue, but plenty of spectacle — is that at episode’s end, the Night King rides the resurrected dragon Viserion to successfully pull off a siege on The Wall. His army follows, but it is the dragon’s icy fire that blasts through the frozen structure, enabling the dead to march on the living. The solid, ancient, impossibly tall barrier comes crashing down, and with it any hope that the Night’s Watch can fulfill their duty in the greatest hour of need.

Is Tormund dead?

Did Tormund Giantsbane (played by Kristofer Hivju, at right) kick the bucket in the last episode of the seventh season?Helen Sloan | HBO

When the Ice Dragon was busy vaporizing the wall, or at least trying to, Tormund Giantsbane, friend of Jon Snow and interim leader of the Wildlings/Freefolk, was fleeing for his life.

“Oh no!!” legions surely gasped as the character legged it from his perch atop Eastwatch-by-the-Sea. “Not Tormund!” (We’re not sure Brienne of Tarth, the object of his unwanted affection, would concur.)

Did he succeed in making an escape before the part of the wall supporting him gave way? At episode’s end, no one could be sure.

Now, we see that Tormund did live to see another day.

How does one come to this conclusion? The first official trailer for the coming season, released in March, showed him in the flesh alongside Beric Dondarrion (check the 30-second mark in the video above).

So we know Tormund and Beric are alive, which makes the prospect of them making it to the showdown with the Night King a definite possibility. Plus: Beric’s flaming sword would look really cool in the great battle.

Also seen in the trailer on what is presumably the battlefield for that showdown: Brienne, Podrick Payne and Jorah Mormont.

How the show will make history in its final season

In 2014, “Game of Thrones” made history when it blew past “The Sopranos” to become HBO’s most popular series.

Which battle is this? Why, the battle of Winterfell, which will see the Starks and allies standing up to the Night King. It’s the same battle that was teased in the trailer and grimly alluded to in a more recent teaser. That menacing preview featured the weapons and accessories of various characters, like Jon Snow’s sword Longclaw and Daenerys’ dragon chain, abandoned by their owners in the snow at Winterfell. The faint sound of horses neighing and swords clanking relayed the message that the dismal scene was the ghost of a great battle. But the show has employed symbolic teasers before — like this one, which saw Arya, Jon and Sansa in the crypts of Winterfell — so you may not want to read too much into that one.

How many episodes are left?

Bad news. After waiting for nearly two years, there’s only six episodes left to go.

Before you get too sad, though, know this: Not every episode is an hour long. Some are longer. The third episode will run an hour and 22 minutes. The fourth runs an hour and 18 minutes. The fifth episode and the series finale on May 19 will run an hour and 20 minutes.

Questions to be answered

Sansa Stark (Sophie Turner). Helen Sloan | HBO

What questions need answering from last season? How much time do you have?

How on earth will Jon react to the knowledge that he is Daenerys’ nephew? Will he be emboldened when he is informed that not only is he a trueborn Stark, but a trueborn Targaryen, and an heir to the Iron Throne (with much more of a claim to it than any child of Cersei)? Most of all, a legitimate portion of the “GOT” fandom — probably all? — is pretty curious about how the revelation will go down and what his face will look like as he processes this information. Meme of the century?

Speaking of children of Cersei, she told Tyrion and Jaime that she was pregnant, but is she, really? That could have been a tactic that served dual purposes — first, it could be a ploy to keep Jaime close to her when he’s bound to run off to the Great War for Jon and Daenerys (which he did, anyway, despite the fact that she told him it was his kid). Second, a pregnancy would support the notion that she wanted to save the world from the army of the dead, for her unborn child’s sake, convincing Tyrion that she was being sincere when she said she would commit the forces of King’s Landing to the war effort. But she was bluffing, so why not about the baby, too? Also, in season five, a flashback shows a young Cersei hearing a prophecy — she was supposed to have three children, and all three would die. Cersei already had three children, and all three of them — Joffrey, Tommen and Myrcella — already died, so where would a fourth come in?

Speaking of pregnancy, Jon’s conversation with Daenerys in King’s Landing about the possible fallibility of the notion that she can never have a child was likely some not-so-subtle foreshadowing. If she gets pregnant after her ... encounter ... on the ship with Jon, we’ve been given an obvious roadmap to that development. If this was instead some kind of misdirection, what could the purpose be?

Bran Stark (Isaac Hempstead Wright). Helen Sloan | HBO

Will the Night King have enough of a force to hold back the Mother of Dragons and her two other living dragons? Will he once again employ his Olympic-caliber javelin-throwing skills as he rides atop the reanimated Viserion?

Will Jon Snow ride a dragon, now knowing full well that he is a Targaryen?

And, of course, if the living triumph over the dead, who will take the Iron Throne? Jon? Daenerys? Cersei? Gendry? Tyrion? ... Podrick? Melisandre seems to think that Jon is the Prince that was Promised. While we’ve seen what happens when you follow Melisandre’s lead, we also saw Jon come back from the dead right after she attempted to resurrect him. As for Melisandre’s fate, we already know that she told Varys that their lives will both come to an end in the North, and things aren’t looking any better for our old friend the spymaster in the trailer.

Will Jorah and Davos die? Because who could take that??

How will Bran’s powers and Arya’s Faceless Man skills come into play in the final act? And does Sansa have anything up her sleeve now that Littlefinger is dead? She seems to have absorbed the best maneuvers from both Baelish and Cersei.

Samwell Tarly (John Bradley).Helen Sloan | HBO

When it’s over, it’s not really over

When “Game of Thrones” leaves us for good on May 19, it won’t actually be the end of George R.R. Martin’s universe, and not just because there are two books to come in the “A Song of Ice and Fire” series. (Martin really regrets not finishing them sooner, since the show moved past the events in the books a few years ago.)

For one, just a week after the series finale, fans experiencing “GOT” withdrawal will get a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the final season with the HBO documentary “Game of Thrones: The Last Watch,” which will air from 9 to 11 p.m. Sunday, May 26.

Later (much later), fans can anticipate the forthcoming “Game of Thrones” prequel series from Jane Goldman and George R.R. Martin, starring Naomi Watts as a “charismatic socialite" and Miranda Richardson, among others. But don’t think of this like a “Sopranos” prequel. The new HBO show will be set thousands of years before the events in the original series and will follow “the world’s descent from the golden Age of Heroes into its darkest hour.”

The (tentative) title of this series, set to begin filming this summer?